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Weβre breaking down how modern smart vacuums track your habits and monetize your home's geometry.
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My vac is called "Vlad" and has googly eyes stuck on.
Funny pic that inspired me naming my smart-vac...
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Manufacturer #Bricks #SmartVacuum After Engineer Blocks It From Collecting Data
#privacy #security #tracking
A curious engineer discovered that his iLife A11 smart vacuum was remotely "killed" after he blocked it from sending data to the manufacturer's servers. By reverse-engineering it with custom hardware and Python scripts, he managed to revive the device to run fully offline. Tom's Hardware reports: A...
Whoops: Your βSmartβ Vacuum May Be Broadcasting A 3D Map Of Your Home
This is one of the many reasons I don't want some tech in my house or life..
"An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device," writes Tom's Hardware. "That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer β something he hadn't consented to." The user...
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart #vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data β user revives it with custom hardware & Python scripts to run offline-Tom's Hardware
An engineer got curious about how his #iLifeA11 #SmartVacuum worked & #monitored the network traffic coming from the device. Thatβs when he noticed it was constantly sending logs & #telemetry data to the manufacturer β something he hadn't consented to.
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The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/
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Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuumβa sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot
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